Charlie Kirk’s Death Echoes the First Christian Martyr, Stephen, and Inspires a Generation to Boldness
The tragic murder of Charlie Kirk on September 10 is no different than the stoning of the first Christian martyr, Stephen, recorded in the Bible in Acts 7. Stephen openly challenged the religious system of his day, successfully proving that Jesus was indeed the Jewish Messiah. The scribes and Pharisees could not overcome his arguments, so they killed him.
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Likewise, Charlie Kirk was a defender of biblical truth and very successfully argued against the “wokeness” and insanity of the modern left. They couldn’t out-argue him, so they killed him.
And it wasn’t a single gunman who fired the shot. The liberal media have been characterizing anyone who disagrees with their new religion as Hitler and a fascist. They are just as guilty as Saul, who held the cloaks of those who stoned Stephen to death. They may not have pulled the trigger, but they armed the gunman with hate that removed the safety and allowed the weapon to be fired.
This new religion calls all evil good and all good evil (Is. 5:20). It is the exact thing Jesus spoke of in John 3:19–20, where He said, “Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” Many will relegate Charlie’s murder to being a political assassination, but this was pure evil fighting against good. Just as Jesus said, everyone who does evil hates the light because it exposes their evil deeds.
This murder was evil, pure and simple, and it’s hypocritical for those who lit the fire against all that is good and fanned the flames to now condemn the destruction that their own rhetoric produced.
Many will see this as a sign that we have lost the nation, but in truth, it is just the opposite. This shows that the ungodly left recognizes they are losing, and that the only way they can survive is to silence all opposition. Charlie Kirk was a once-in-a-generation catalyst who reached millions, especially young people, with a message of hope and started a movement that will long outlive him.
I believe that just as the first-century church responded to the persecution that came against them by praying that the Lord would give them boldness to proclaim the Gospel even more (Acts 4), so the younger generation that was so inspired by Charlie will take up the torch and multiply Charlie’s efforts a millionfold.
Just as the name of the organization Charlie started (Turning Point), this will be a turning point in our nation. Those who have been on the sidelines are going to come off the bench and get involved in the fight.
And just as Saul, who became Apostle Paul, was pricked in his heart until he finally encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus, many who have been promoting the insanity that wars against all common sense are recognizing today that this cannot be the way forward for this nation. I believe many are looking in the mirror to see that they have become something even they don’t like. They are primed for a Damascus Road encounter with the only One who can change the hearts of men, and the Lord will bring good out of this evil as only He can.
As for Charlie, he is more alive today than he ever was. The Scriptures reveal Jesus as seated at the Father’s right hand, but when Stephen was stoned to death, he saw Jesus standing at the Father’s right hand. I believe that this was Jesus honoring the first Christian martyr. Likewise, I imagine Jesus and all of heaven standing and honoring a modern-day hero and martyr of the Christian faith as Charlie entered into his heavenly reward.
It is absolutely miraculous what Charlie was able to accomplish in his short thirty-one years. It testifies that this was not just a man, but God working through a man who influenced a nation so strongly that the president, political leaders, news outlets and even baseball games all rose to the occasion and honored this young man who willingly put himself in the cross hairs of an ungodly few for the sake of doing what is right.
We pray for his wife, Erika, and his two young children, who will bear the loss of a husband and father for the rest of their lives. But we take courage knowing that just as the Pharisees didn’t extinguish the message by killing the messenger, so the truth that Charlie articulated will live on in the hearts of all those whose lives he touched.
Great is Charlie’s reward!
